I have a dear friend who has been in prison, serving a life sentence, since he was 16. He's in his mid 40s now, and we've been corresponding for about 20 years. I send him a lot of books. He loved Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), and The Book of the Dead and Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), and now wants to know about American history.
I'm sending A Pocket Guide to Magna Carta to help ground him, but I'm looking for books to help him understand more about our (US) history during and after the Revolution, and the founding of the USA.
He's never going to vote, so left or right-leaning books aren't of interest. For example, I won't send him Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States. Give me a list, please?
by 3X_Cat